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Germany's solar panels would provide 25% of Australia's power needs

...tter. If we set these targets we can achieve them with the proven feed-in tariff mechanism." There certainly isn't any shortage of rooftop real estate in our towns and cities to assist in achieving su...

11 Jul 2012

Germany's solar panels would provide 25% of Australia's power needs

News / Food & Agriculture

Technology improves fish and herbs for Tainan farmer

...tools, including an energy-saving watercraft that won the gold medal at the Geneva International Invention competition. Yan's overturning of entrenched traditional ideas has attracted considerable peo...

12 Mar 2012

Technology improves fish and herbs for Tainan farmer

News / Green Buildings

Nation's wind power generation capacity grew fivefold in last decade

...to continue expanding after the so-called feed-in tariff system kicks off in July. The system requires utilities in principle to buy, at fixed rates, electricity from other entities that is produced b...

21 May 2012

Nation's wind power generation capacity grew fivefold in last decade

News / Energy

Ayala eyes geothermal, hydro plants

...tch” in the privatization of the IPPA contract as the facility’s ownership might still revert to the government through the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) instead of the IPP administrator, u...

3 Sep 2012

Ayala eyes geothermal, hydro plants

News / Energy

Sustainable Energy Development Authority gets approval for additional 1% levy to RE fund

...tion we don't think it will be (revised),” Badriyah said. The current 1 per cent levy to cover costs associated with the FiT scheme translates to about RM300mil per annum. To kick-start the FiT, Seda ...

23 Mar 2012

Sustainable Energy Development Authority gets approval for additional 1% levy to RE fund

News / Cities

Community garden groups in full bloom

...top in their respective categories. The overall winner of the Gardeners' Cup was the entry titled The House by the Mangroves, which depicts an early 19th century attap house, complete with cooking sto...

8 Jul 2012

Community garden groups in full bloom

News / Energy

Price of solar schools program is $284 a tonne

...t the development of wind farms, and two-thirds say farmers' right to earn money from hosting the turbines outweighs their neighbours' right to an uncluttered view. The Australian National Audit Offic...

8 Jun 2012

Price of solar schools program is $284 a tonne

News / Energy

Sun hasn't set on Kamberra Winery's ambitious plan

...tly restricted to feeding the electricity generated by its solar panels into the main grid. But its aim was to harness the electricity generated from the Kamberra site to power its ready-mix concrete ...

18 Jun 2012

Sun hasn't set on Kamberra Winery's ambitious plan

News / Waste

Where TVs go to die

...te from 17 per cent to 30 per cent by 2012-13 and, in the long term, to 80 per cent in the next decade. The government scheme is similar to other voluntary industry projects to protect the environment...

12 Apr 2012

Where TVs go to die

News / Energy

Gov't withheld estimates showing electricity surplus to boost nuclear power: critics

...that time. Aside from the estimate, then Prime Minister Naoto Kan instructed a team assisting him in the National Policy Unit in late June last year to study the actual status of electric power and su...

23 Jan 2012

Gov't withheld estimates showing electricity surplus to boost nuclear power: critics

News / Manufacturing

Rally attracts over 5,000 protesters against Lynas plant

...to halt all plans to set up it operations in the state and return to Australia. The leaders also stressed that the Lynas issue is more then just a local issue for residents of Kuantan, or a political ...

26 Feb 2012

Rally attracts over 5,000 protesters against Lynas plant

News / Energy

Solar bidders complain about lack of communication over Cloncurry project

...t in the dark. "I really can't say that they are serious, if this is the way they're going to attempt to hand out a tender proposal. It's really not fair," he said. "But if you were to ask the questio...

17 Nov 2011

Solar bidders complain about lack of communication over Cloncurry project

News / Water

Planned dam won't harm environment, say officials

...tection is a top priority in the project. Ecologists and scientists have been evaluating the impacts. Although local authorities have made great efforts to prove that the project will be friendly to t...

7 Mar 2012

Planned dam won't harm environment, say officials

News / Manufacturing

Uncertainty surrounds clean energy plant site

...t. "Look, at the end of the day Anthony Pratt made that announcement in collaboration with the Premier Mr O'Farrell," he said. "If they've made that commitment there, I think they'll honour it. Whethe...

30 Nov 2011

Uncertainty surrounds clean energy plant site

News / Green Buildings

Buyers shying away from green buildings

...ty has just 8.4 per cent green cover, lowest among the big cities of western India. "There is an additional cost factor involved in these projects and at times buyers are not willing to part with this...

23 Jul 2012

Buyers shying away from green buildings

News / Cities

New modelling tool to help authorities test urban planning solutions

...titute Teh Poh Suan said: "The good thing about this system is that it can pick and recommend the best combination of strategies for the planner to adopt. "We do not have to do the trial and error phy...

3 Jul 2012

New modelling tool to help authorities test urban planning solutions

News / Energy

Japanese town's dependence on nuclear plant hushes criticism

...tress tests on whether reactors can withstand extreme events like the earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima plant. Experts from the UN atomic watchdog visited the Ohi plant on Thursday af...

26 Jan 2012

Japanese town's dependence on nuclear plant hushes criticism

News / Policy & Finance

'Mugged by the truth': Labor goes for Abbott on carbon tax

...ttack on Mr Abbott, who admitted at the Tasmanian state council of the Liberal Party yesterday the immediate effect of the carbon tax had been less than that of a "wrecking ball". "'Yes, the initial i...

26 Aug 2012

'Mugged by the truth': Labor goes for Abbott on carbon tax

News / Policy & Finance

Firms implement energy savings amid price hikes

...t said they only buy discounted items. The survey also found that 41 percent of the workers take public transport to save money and 30 percent of them only take showers, not baths, to cut their electr...

12 May 2012

Firms implement energy savings amid price hikes

News / Transport

Mini electric cars fill gap in China as official EVs sputter

...the EV sector will convey. But they account for merely a third of mini e-car total cost, while e6's lithium iron phosphate batteries contribute about two-thirds of the cost. "It is definitely not a re...

19 Apr 2012

Mini electric cars fill gap in China as official EVs sputter

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